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Secret Memo Ordered Iraq Abuse Witnesses 'Silenced' (Barf Alert?)
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| Dec. 08, 2004
| PAISLEY DODDS
Posted on 12/08/2004 2:27:06 PM PST by crushelits
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. special operations forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq warned defense intelligence personnel not to talk about the alleged mistreatment they saw, according to a government memo to a top adviser of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
In the memo written June 25 after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal had gone public, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency complained about the harassment of DIA personnel, including one case where special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner they had punched.
Defense intelligence workers also had their e-mail messages monitored and were ordered by a special operations task force ``not to talk to anyone'' about what they saw, said the memo, which was among internal documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Prisoners arriving at a detention center in Baghdad had ``burn marks on their backs'' as well as bruises and some complained of kidney pain, Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, the defense intelligence chief, wrote to Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
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Army Spc. Charles Graner, right, with Military Police investigator Joe Willis, left, arrives for a pretrial hearing on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004, at Fort Hood, Texas. Graner is among seven members of the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company accused of assaulting and humiliating male detainees at the Baghdad prison in late 2003. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
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KEYWORDS: abuse; iraq; memo; ordered; secret; silenced; witnesses
To: crushelits
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posted on
12/08/2004 2:31:10 PM PST
by
LauraleeBraswell
(See and decide for yourself)
To: crushelits
you know what...if DIA guys did this...it's not abuse...it's an intelligence gathering method.
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posted on
12/08/2004 2:35:15 PM PST
by
Keith
(NOW, MORE THAN EVER....IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES!)
To: Keith
in that case they should have eaten their secret memo immediately after they wrote it.
To: crushelits
Prisoners arriving at a detention center in Baghdad had ``burn marks on their backs'' as well as bruises and some complained of kidney pain. Whoop-dee-do.
The burn marks are from sleeping on a hot AK-47 barrel in their frigging mud huts and the kidney pain is from peeing in their pants then sleeping on it. And the bruises are from climbing in and out of spider holes!
Case Closed!
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posted on
12/08/2004 3:33:47 PM PST
by
Condor51
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
To: crushelits
Read the whole thing! Guess whose "Affiliation" is at the bottom of the article...
BINGO!! It's the Ever present ACLU..
Association of Commie Losers United
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posted on
12/08/2004 7:31:24 PM PST
by
acapesket
(never had a vote count in all my years here)
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